Balloonist 1.0.4 review
DownloadBalloonist is a comics layout application for comics artists and comics-minded graphics designers.
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Balloonist is a comics layout application for comics artists and comics-minded graphics designers.
As you move your balloons around the workspace, Balloonist keeps their text centered... even when they're clipped to the boundary of a panel or another balloon. There's full support for Undo, margins, text styling, and the vertical orientation of Japanese & Chinese writing. Merged and tied ovals are a given.
Balloonist integrates seamlessly into existing design workflows through its support of PDF and SVG. It even lets you change the rectangularness of ovals, fit panels to a page, and drag the gutters between panels!
Here are some key features of "Balloonist":
Vertically orient Japanese & Chinese text
Spread text across merged & tied ovals
Outputs to Acrobat PDF and SVG for high-quality export to other illustration software
Full Undo support
Gouache tool to replace text in existing comics
Works with scanned-in fonts generated by programs like FontLab and TypeTool
Variable balloon text margins
control font styles & drawing colors
Drag 'n Drop-enabled Object Hiearchy tree
move the gutters between panels!
Exquisite levels of control over ruffles, prongs and stems.
What's New:
Better default margins, J2SE 5.0 bug fixes.
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